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# Sr Full stack Software Engineer

- **Company:** Vista Higher Learning
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000 - $320,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe Analytics, Clean Code Principles, JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Command-Line Interface, Persistent Data Structure, Database Schema, Elasticsearch, Github, Integrated Development Environments, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Systems Development Life Cycle, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Ruby, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Web Applications, Cloud Platform System, Sql Optimization, Large Language Models, Backend, Vue.js, Api Design, Service Stack
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/60126660-sr-full-stack-software-engineer

## About the Role

WHO ARE YOU? You bring strong backend and full stack technical expertise to your work as a Senior Software Engineer. You thrive in a collaborative, fastmoving development environment, and are motivated to ensure your work has a positive impact.

WHO ARE WE? We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities.

WHAT IS THIS ROLE ABOUT? As a Senior Software Engineer here, you will join a Development team that is focused, professional and consistently driving innovation that shapes our industryleading digital language education products.

OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK

Languages/Frameworks: Ruby/Rails, JS, Vue

Persistence: MySQL, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch

Hosting: AWS, * Bachelors Degree

 * 7+ years of Senior level Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
 * Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
 * Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols
 * Advanced working knowledge of *nix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line.
 * Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge
 * Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub
 * Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
 * Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately

IDEAL IF YOU HAVE or ARE (PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE):

 * Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
 * Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
 * Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
 * A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
 * Experience working with LLMs and AI tooling for developers
 * Experience with Ruby highly preferred
 * Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry
 * Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance

## Description

* Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
 * Perform tests to optimize performance
 * Write clean code to develop functioning web applications
 * Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects